Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had debuted in the
form of a voice-enabled keychain, called, sensibly enough, Sarah Palin
in Your Pocket.
The gadget is actually the latest in a line of novelty chains that
debuted back in 1997. That year, New Orleans-based entrepreneur Steve
Winn struck gold with a little toy called Cajun in Your Pocket, a
keychain that spouts lines like "you gotta suck da head on dem der
crawfish."

"Leaked documents show that Pakistan has been taking American money and using it
to fund the Taliban. The Pakistanis are denying it, and they're like, 'The
Taliban bought those iPods with their own money.'" –Craig Ferguson

Without the benefit of
their state's strict new immigration law, officers from a single Arizona county
helped deport more than 26,000 immigrants from the U.S. through a federal-local
partnership program that has been roundly criticized as fraught with problems.

A
four-day-old Zedonk, a rare cross between a zebra and a donkey, stands next to
her mother at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Lumpkin County, Ga. Monday July
26, 2010. The director of the preserve says it is the first time in 40 years
that a zedonk has been born there. Photo/The Times,Tom Reed